The accomplishments of Lillian Wald has in no doubt shaped the healthcare system of our current society. All of Wald’s accomplishments serves a strong and solid foundation for today’s effective healthcare system. However Wald’s accomplishment that stands out to me the most is concern of reducing mortality from infectious diseases. To effectively handle this, Wald teamed up with the Red Cross society to provide nursing services to the remote areas by establishing home nursing care, teaching and establishing sanitation rural communities to subsequently improving living conditions in these areas.
Olivia Moyer VA & US History Warren November 1 2017 Trained From the Start A Confederate Nurse, The Diary of Ada W. Bacot records almost all of her life from 1860-1873. During this period of her life, she drastically jumped from living the simple life as the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner to serving as a nurse for the Confederate States of America. Ada Bacot's diary entries give readers today an idea of what the ideal woman was expected to act like during the time of the American Civil War.
Saving lives is what the nurses in the Civil War did best. There ongoing dedication to helping the wounded and dying soldiers never wavered. Through all of the difficulties they faced with being a woman they still soldiered on in their own ways. The volunteered nurses served as heroes of the medical field. They revolutionized the Civil War with their knowledge and ability to save lives.
A major change for Nursing was the social acceptance. For the first time in history, nurses were paid for their service with $70 a month for their service during the war. World War Two ended when Japan surrendered on September 1945. Proud army nurses returned home with many accomplishments. Nurses had played a crucial part of every single event of the war.
Chapter 4: What Nurses Did in the South Before the Civil War, women south served as the nurses to their immediate families only. For those that lived on rather large plantations, they were the nurses for the children, husbands as well as their slaves. The vast majority of southern women were well versed and comfortable caring for those who are sick and injured. More often than not, nursing in the south was considered to be their “sovereign duty” or just “women’s work”.
History Report My job shadow is a certified nursing assistant (CNA). Nurse aide jobs were first established during World War I due to the surplus of injured soldiers. Since there was a lack of trained nurses, there was a desperate need for volunteered assistance to treat soldiers.
Health care was a lot different in the 18-1900’s. Technologies were developed that health care professionals take for granted every day. The hospital provided a place of refuge for sick the sick and shut-in. It was also an interactive classroom for doctors and nurses of all specialties. One interesting technology that developed in the late 1800’s was the syringe.
Nurses suffered from loss of job and difficulty in finding another place of work just as nearly everyone faced during the Great Depression. Many families traveled from town to town looking for work, and nurses were not an exception. The need for education was growing as numbers of enrolled college or university enrolled tripled while high school attendance doubled . Although the country was facing great hardship, women like Annie Goodrich were fighting to further change the image of nursing to standardize nursing education in efforts for “establish nursing as a distinct profession.” One might ask how is it possible to make such a name for nursing during the immense lack of work in which is needed to establish nursing as distinct.
Nursing is a profession that has been around since the nineteenth century. “The first nurses began by caring for injured men during the Civil War” (Dzubak, 2016). During the Civil War, there was a tremendous amount of wounded soldiers who needed to be cared for. Since the men were fighting in the war, the Union and the Confederacy both realized the need for female nurses to care for the injured men. The purpose of this paper is to determine the beginning of nursing during the war, explore the work of the United States Sanitary Commission and the Women’s Central Association of Relief, and to explore the evolution of nurses’ roles during the war.
Due to hospital care reaching an all-time high in America, we need nurses now more than ever before. Currently in America, we have an issue with nurses having too many paperwork to fill out. In the article “We Need More Nurses” by Alexandra Robbins argues we need more nurses in the hospital. Nursing shortage has been a common issue throughout the world. Because of this issue others are being affected in many different ways.
Nursing has been around since ancient times. People have needed the healing hands of nurses for thousands upon thousands of years. In Africa, the healing techniques of witch doctors and medicine men were taught to chosen children. The medicine men and witch doctors were like the nurses for the entire village. However, these more primitive techniques have evolved into much more evidence-based practices.
Those tenets are light, ventilation, warmth, bed and bedding, quiet, cleanliness, and food (2013). The implementation of these concepts in the battlefield hospital setting by Nightingale and her nurses reduced the mortality rates drastically (Smith & Parker, 2015). These points are continually addressed in today’s nursing practice. Nightingale used data on mortality rates at the Barrack Hospital in Scutari to drive improvements in sanitation in field hospitals. Similarly, nurses today used evidence-based practice to promote change and transform the healthcare system.
It is very easy to get wrapped up in the day to day tasks that we complete as nurses. But in order to give our patients the best possible care, we must look at our day through a holistic lens. The following essay will outline the theory as created by the “lady with the lamp” Florence Nightingale. We will look at the different components that are important to a patient’s health and outline on to incorporate these components into current practice.
Florence Nightingale is one of the most well-known nursing theorists and is often called the “mother” of nursing. To this day, Florence has had an everlasting effect on nursing and the reason why nursing is what it is now is due to her. If Ms. Nightingale was not around there would be drastic changes in nursing practices. In 1860, Florence Nightingale wrote a book, Notes on Nursing, which was about how someone could think like a nurse and act like a nurse. This book was essentially written to make sure the patient has the best chance at returning to their optimum health and the nurses who are helping them getting there.
In this paper we conduct the study in which we explain the concepts of profession and professionalism and the extensive use of these concepts in different professional groups.. Then paper shows the comparison of professionalism & professionalization. Moreover in this study, paper shows the different aspects of professionalism in Teaching, Comparison of Old vs. New professionalism, professionalism in Journalism, medicines, nursing, military and so on. The paper also describes the views of different scholars who argued against and in favor of the statement but most of the authors agreed on that the notion of professionalism has been changed from previous few decades.